A New Weapon in the Talent Arms Race
The large law firm talent arms race just got hotter; NYC first year salaries escalated to $160k. Money, however, is barely a weapon when you think about it. All firms…
Customized Searching
In my prior post, I described the challenge of searching across the AmLaw 100 web sites. Spotted today at slaw is a post about custom Google searches. My experiment below,…
Directory of Large Firm Blogs (Not as Many as You Might Think)
Blogs are now old hat. How many large law firms write blogs? It turns out that not many. Joy London (of excited utterances) and I have compiled a directory of…
Roundup (3/1/07)
In this Roundup: why a law firm strategy may be an oxymoron, outsourcing is harder than it looks, law librarians are probably safe from outsourcing, an excellent article on law…
Collateralized Legal Obligations
Can Wall Street work its magic to reduce legal risk and cost while earning healthy returns? Three related themes dominate recent financial news: Bundling Assets: investors reduce risk by buying…
Non-Practicing Lawyers as Managers
Non-practicing lawyers as managers is a fairly recent trend in large law firms. Last week, Clark Cordner, Director of Client & Practice Services at WilmerHale, and I explored the role…
One Barrier to Innovation
Getting customers to drive innovation is a common theme these days. Therein may lay one barrier to legal market innovation. Customer-Controlled Innovation by Patrica Seybold in Optimize Magazine (Feb 07)…
Wither Online Legal Auctions?
Making lawyers more efficient means clients need to be tougher. I was therefore surprised to see one typically tough customer scale back on a recent innovation. The headline in LegalWeek.com…
Perspective on Adopting New Technology
Change is hard. To wit, many lawyers have trouble adapting new technology. A very humorous video provides an enlightening perspective on change management. Ernie the Attorney pointed to this hilarious…
Making Information Actionable
Last week I saw an interesting illustration of one way to make sense of ever-growing data volumes. Until the Web matured, just finding data was hugely time-consuming. Today, finding is…
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